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harmolodics [ˌhɑːməˈlɒdɪks]

(Music) (functioning as singular) Jazz the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment

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harmolodic adj

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jazz music			Harmolodics Obscure concept coined by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, referring to a reflexive, total-improv approach in which a player can react melodically, harmonically and rhythmically at once. How to speak jazz by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk These hot, ultra-smart insurgents make music drawing on John Coltrane's sheets of sound, James Blood Ulmer's harmolodics, and death metal blitzkrieg. MUSIC: ALBUMS by The Mirror (London, England) Coleman first started to analyze the way he composed, he came up with his theory of harmolodics. Ornette Coleman by I-Huei Go / The New York Observer			harlequin snake harlequin-snake harlequinade Harley Harley Granville-Barker Harley Street Harlingen Harlock harlot Harlotize harlotry Harlow Harlow Shapley harm harm's way Harmaline harmattan Harmel harmful harmfully harmfulness Harmine harmless harmlessly Harmlessness harmolodics harmonia harmonic harmonic analysis harmonic distortion Harmonic interval harmonic law harmonic mean harmonic minor scale harmonic motion harmonic oscillator harmonic progression Harmonic proportion harmonic series Harmonic suture Harmonic triad harmonica harmonical Harmonical mean Harmonical proportion harmonically Harmonicon harmonics harmonious harmoniously harmoniousness			Harmine Harmine harming harming harming harming harming harmless harmless Harmless error Harmless error rule harmless snakes Harmless Sumac Harmless Sumac Harmless Sumac Harmless Sumacs Harmless Sumacs Harmless Sumacs Harmless warrant Harmless Warrants harmless-depth theory harmlessly harmlessly harmlessness harmlessness Harmodius Harmodius and Aristogeiton Harmodius and Aristogiton harmol Harmolodic harmolodics Harmolodics Records Harmon College of Business Administration Harmon County Harmon County, OK Harmon County, Oklahoma Harmon Drew Super Group Harmon, Judson Harmon, Judson Harmondsworth and Sipson Residents Association Harmoni Amal Titian Ilmu Harmonia Harmonia Harmonia Harmonia's necklace harmonic harmonic harmonic acceleration test harmonic acceleration test harmonic acceleration test Harmonic accompaniment Harmonic accompaniment Harmonic accompaniment harmonic adapter harmonic analysis harmonic analysis Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Harmonic Analysis and Statistics for Signal and Image Processing Harmonic Analyzer Harmonic Analyzer Harmonic and Individual Lines plus Noise

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